Longtime Democratic Federal Election Commissioner and Chair Ellen Weintraub on Thursday said President Donald Trump sent a ...

Russell Vought previously served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget during President Donald Trump's first ...

Powerless to stop the president or Russell Vought, the nominee to lead the White House budget office, Democrats pulled an all ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Jan. 29 The Washington Post on Trump's OMB pick The White House memo announcing a federal spending freeze, rescinded Wednesday ...

Buried within one of the dozens of executive orders that President Donald Trump issued in his first days in office is a ...

Disparate fights in the early weeks of Trump 2.0 are linked together by the question of whether a president can take spending ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Georgetown Law professor Stephen Vladeck about the constitutional issues raised by the Trump administration's efforts to pause federal loans and grants last week.

An internal OMB document shows that it is official administration policy to block funding to provoke a constitutional ...

A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

That roped Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham into the heated back and forth, who impressed on Vought that he ...

The Trump administration backed down Wednesday from its sloppy order — after the edict was put on hold by a federal judge — imposing a sweeping federal spending freeze. But even as it backtracked, the ...

If Russell Vought is confirmed as Office of Management ... In Mr. Vought’s view, presidents (aided by recent Supreme Court rulings that curtail administrative independence) have powerful tools ...